TwitBacks 2009 Year In Review

Ever heard of a little thing called “Twitter”? While our Go Smart Solutions professional services keep us plenty busy, we also like to take on fun side projects every now and again, which is how TwitBacks was born. While we initially launched TwitBacks near the end of 2008, it took on a life of its own in 2009, spreading across the Twitterverse and growing every day in popularity. Since it has launched, there have been 166,700 backgrounds created by over 152,000 members.

TwitBacks was the first to offer branded, customizable backgrounds for your Twitter profile. Using the service, anyone can create a unique Twitter background with their contact info, photo, company logo and more — for free!

TwitBacks offers tons of professionally designed backgrounds and also allows you to upload a background of your own.

We want to thank all the Twitter members who have used and supported TwitBacks in 2009.

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Twitter Trending Topic Spam

Today I am left wondering… How effective are Twitter trending topics? Trending topics used to be a place to look for the latest news, events, or information on a specific topic. Lately, it seems to be more of a place where spammers hang out and hijack the trending topics. Now, when viewing any given trending topic you are presented with irrelevant information and spam from people who are attempting to get their message seen by riding on the popularity of the trending topic.

These spammers are stuffing the end of their tweets with multiple trending topics and they are over taking the Twitter trending topic stream.

Is this another one of those good things that are going bad?  Do all good things really have to come to an end?

Go away Twitter trending topic spammers.  Go away!

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Twitter suspending accounts infected by Koobface

Twitter has unfortunately been the latest victim of the Koobface malware.  If your Twitter account has been hacked by this virus your account will send bogus tweets when logging in .  You can keep updated about this on Twitter status at http://status.twitter.com/post/138789881/koobface-malware-attack

Mashable also has a good article about this that explains how the malware works.  We suggest you read this article to learn how to protect your Twitter account.

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Custom twitter backgrounds using TwitBacks and Picnik

We’ve been delivering free designer backgrounds from day one, but now we’ve done something even cooler! After creating your TwitBack, you’ll now be able to make it truly unique by enhancing it with Picnik.

Watch the video below to see how it works.

See the full social media release for more details.

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Twitter’s Technical Difficulties Cause a Stir

With Twitter’s traffic growing at over 1,000 percent annually, it’s no wonder that they encounter technical difficulties from time to time. During these down times, Twitter has a hard time handling your TwitBacks uploads and often crashes in the process. If this happens, we suggest trying again when Twitter is working smoothly, as there is nothing we can do on our end to address the problem.

The folks at Twitter are kind enough to publish regular status updates, keeping users in the loop about technical issues and solutions. Keep an eye on that and try not to get too frustrated in the process

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